Director, AI Strategy, Enablement – Workflow

Job Description:

• Translate enterprise AI strategy into an actionable portfolio and enablement plan
• Define the progression model, decision forums, and adoption priorities moving opportunities from Sandbox experiments to Functional Programs and Enterprise Bets
• Own total portfolio health, including ownership, pipeline status, adoption paths, and value outcomes
• Oversee enterprise-wide AI transformation communications and executive narratives
• Direct workflow redesign across the portfolio, including current-state work baselining, friction-point identification, and role and process redesign
• Oversee L&D curriculum, playbooks, and learning journeys tailored to each audience
• Ensure coordinated change management across HR and business unit or skill teams
• Manage enablement ROI and hold external agencies, third-party resources, and internal hubs accountable for upskilling and adoption metrics
• Partner with Insight Generation to feed portfolio, adoption, and enablement data into a trusted leadership scorecard
• Lead a team charged with fundamentally changing how Ford operates

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 8+ years of experience in strategy, portfolio management, or transformation leadership roles
• Experience managing managers or leading multiple functional teams
• Direct experience running a portfolio of competing initiatives, including prioritization, progression decisions, and pipeline health tracking
• Experience leading or closely partnering with workflow redesign and organizational design work
• Experience overseeing an L&D or capability-building function, including curriculum design and rollout tied to a specific technology or operating model change
• Track record of leading change management efforts requiring coordination across HR and multiple business units
• Experience managing external agencies or third-party vendors against a defined scope and ROI expectation
• Strong executive communication skills, including building narratives and materials for senior leadership decision-making
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States
• Visa sponsorship is not available
• Preferred: experience in automotive, technology, or another large-scale enterprise environment with a complex, matrixed operating structure
• Preferred: background leading an AI or digital transformation office, PMO, or center of excellence
• Preferred: experience building or scaling a Sandbox-to-Enterprise-style progression model
• Preferred: familiarity with how AI agents and automation reshape workflows
• Preferred: experience presenting portfolio health, adoption, and enablement performance to senior executives or a board

Benefits:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days
• Paid parental leave
• New parent ramp-up programs
• Subsidized back-up childcare
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
• Management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• Generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off
• Option to purchase additional vacation time